PURPOSE To examine the role of phonotactic probabilities at the onset of language development, in a new language (Dutch), while controlling for word position. METHOD Using a nonword imitation task, 64 Dutch-learning children (age 2;2-2;8 [years;months]) were tested on how they imitated segments in low- and high-phonotactic probability environments, in word-initial and word-final position. The...

ABSTRACT Purpose: to assess the expressive and receptive vocabulary of preschool children trace relationship with different socioeconomic factors. Methods: 108 children, aged between 4 6 years, were evaluated, 84 from a public 24 private preschool, using following instruments: CMMS - Columbia Mental Maturity Scale; ABFW; Peabody Image Vocabulary Test (PPVT); CONFIAS Phonological Awareness: Sequ...

This paper investigates the receptive and expressive vocabulary skills of 202 Arabic/Swedish-speaking Turkish/Swedish-speaking bilingual children aged 4-7 growing up in Sweden, their home/mi ...

OBJECTIVE To compare speech development following unilateral cochlear implant (CI) between a group of prelingually deaf children who have been educated exclusively using spoken language and another group who have used two languages (spoken and sign language). DESIGN A simple group quasi-experimental design was used with a control group. METHODS The sample comprised 7 girls and 11 boys, aged...

Two research hypotheses were tested in the research reported here: The first was that nonlinguistic maternal responses to intentional child communication, but not to preintentional communication, will predict later intentional communication but not later language development. The second hypothesis was that linguistic mapping of intentional communication, but not of preintentional communication,...